Maxim Gorky with a broom and other writers, as you have not seen them

Writing is not an easy task, it is quite time-consuming and requires a fair amount of dedication from those who have decided to devote their lives to the word. But when reading a novel, a story or a poem, we hardly think about who is hiding between the lines and letters. And although you can find a huge amount of information about famous writers — how they lived, how they created their immortal works — their personalities are always hidden under a certain aura of mystery.

In this issue, you will see rare photos of famous poets and writers whose works excite the minds of readers even after centuries.

Sergey Yesenin reads poems to his mother.

Leo Tolstoy plays the Russian folk game gorodki.

Mark Twain.

The free breath of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Boris Pasternak.

Mikhail Bulgakov.

Maxim Gorky pokes a broom at the opera singer Fyodor Chaliapin.

Jack London.

Anton Chekhov with a dachshund.

Vladimir Nabokov studies butterflies.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Joseph Brodsky.

Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Ernest Hemingway kicks a beer can.

Ray Bradbury.

Sergey Dovlatov.

Charles Bukowski.

Kurt Vonnegut.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

Erich Maria Remarque.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Astrid Lindgren.

Aldous Huxley.

Bella Akhmadulina.

Haruki Murakami.